As I'm sure you know, AMD has released their new 16 core, 32 thread threadripper.I'm in the market for a new computer to cut down render time mainly and speed up overall performance. I plan to have 32 gig of ram (two 16g sticks), SSHD and probably a gts 1080 graphics card.

Can anyone say if 3ds Max 2015 would make good use of all those cores and threads?Any opinions or links to some 3ds Max benchmarks with threadripper would be appreciated.Or even some general comments on your own experiences when building a powerful computer mainly for fast rendering.

Thanks

read 225 times8/11/2017 8:52:26 AM (last edit: 8/11/2017 8:52:26 AM)

Octopuzzy

Doubt you'll find many reviews and benchmarks using specifically 3dsmax...Blender seems to be the standard. But sure more cores should definitely help with rendering but not necessarily for overall performance, I'm not sure how much of max is multithreaded.Here's a comparison of threadripper 16 core and intel core i9 10 core.https://www.extremetech.com/computing/253955-threadripper-reviewed-amds-16-core-1950x-rips-intels-core-i9

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soontekk

Same here, started designing a new powerhouse around the 1950x, figured out the cooling i want, will use m2 drives and a set of gtx 1000somethings with 6gb and 64gb fast ram blocks. I hear good things on it vs the much more expensive i9's so fingers crossed on my switch to amd (i'm an amd virgin, always intel untill now).

Remeber that the x399 Mobos support quadchannel memory, so it may be worth looking into 4x8 instead of 2x16 memory..Also all the new motherboards support M.2 Ultra SSDs. So one of those 2000/1200 R/W disks might be fun =)

Toms has a bit of 3DMax on this page of the 1950X review.http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-threadripper-1950x-cpu,5167-11.html

Thanks for the comments, but what is the advantage of having 4x 8g sticks of ram as opposed to2x 16g sticks?

I actually heard the opposite was better. 2x 16g sticks.

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ScotlandDave

Threadripper does look incredible for the money, about time..

Regards quad channel, i've read in the past that there really is very minimal difference between quad and dual channel memory in terms of performance, so i guess it provides more options for ram configuration if not much else. Things may have changed with current gen architecture however..

Noob question here: It's possible to use NVidia gpu's on the new AMD motherboards yeah?

Another question: Is there any talk of dual-cpu boards or capabilities with AMD's new ecosystem?

@Dave, Look for the Epyx chips.Its the xeon equivalent of AMD.They come in single and dual socket systems, single chips go to 32 physical cores so they max out at 128 buckets per system. Dont run at +3 ghz tho.